This letter is an interesting glimpse into the campaigning efforts and rhetoric of the Washington Equal Suffrage Association. The letter is an example of how the movement evolved from a collection of housewives asking for the right to vote, to a...

In this letter to the editor, Mrs. John B. Allen chastises the paper's correspondent from the Legislature, whom she accuses of libel following an article in which he questioned the credibility of a petition for suffrage which was under her charge....

In this letter Hattie Bryan, founder of the Matron's Club (which later became the Washington State University Women's Club), asks her female colleagues to join her in an organization meant to, "...foster the same friendly spirit that has always...

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